2018 NBA OFFSEASON

i value tearing shit up and general basketballbilty highly, but it shd be noted that ayton is doing that too and his game seems a lil more pro

there is an insane amount of talent in this draft any of ayton bagley donic porter young and bamba prob wldve gone first last year

out of them tho ayton seems like the only cant miss bigtime two way player

ayton will prob be a monster but this article was a little concerning

https://www.theringer.com/2017/12/7/16743900/deandre-ayton-arizona-blocks-nba-draft

bagley might be a little slight for center on defense in the NBA but he seems like a smart & good kid who should be able to get himself to like... playable on that end. and the offensive potential seems limitless.

one of the enduring mysteries of the college to pro transition is that its common for an elite prospect to underperform their talent in some way then upon getting to the pros they do totally fine... or not, and its super hard to tell which player will succeed and which wont, all else being equal id take the player who has the tools and is underperforming over the one who has question marks over their fundamental abilities, of course maybe danny aigne takes a look at their mind types and choses bagley, i dont have access to the mindtype data

*the mystery mostly has to do with bad coaching imo

Ayton doesn’t play with much energy on defense. He rarely makes two efforts at contesting a shot, and he’s not particularly diligent about getting himself involved in a play when it doesn’t involve his man.

The frustrating part about the way Ayton plays is that it’s not due to any lack of ability. His defensive potential is off the charts. When he’s locked in on that side of the ball, he can be dominant. He made a few huge defensive plays in Arizona’s 67-64 win over Texas A&M on Tuesday, a game in which he significantly outplayed Robert Williams, another big man projected to go in next year’s lottery.

this prob comes down to a judgement call on personality and motivation but if i were a drafter and felt like i got a sense that those werent going to be an issue id feel fine writing off his college block numbers to the usual college bs

if bagley doesnt totally pan out i cld see him as a antwan jamison / ken faried type ie a player with a great feel for the game who just doesnt quite have the stuff to dominate

yeah i guess a lot of the ayton question comes down to answers about his personality etc that seem unknowable to the public

bagley looks like a 25 ppg scorer to me tho

jfc this guy

Def hyper-focusing on 👣Vs scanning eyes/🏀using peripheral vision 2perceive foot motion
📍Myth:U must jump high/have high release point 2be a Gr8 shooter
🚨Fact:Rate of coordinated force production,pretensioned w/min JH/lower release point is highly effective @bballbreakdown pic.twitter.com/jPW9R4Vs80

— BBiomechanics (@BBiomechanics) February 1, 2018

maybe it's been there for a long time, but i just noticed that the nba has all the draft combine testing and measurements going back to 2000 up.

https://stats.nba.com/draft/combine-strength-agility/

if nothing else it's kind of cool to have more or less real heights, wingspans, and standing reaches for most current players.

hornacek fired

jeez didn’t even wait til the season’s cold

guess its his fault zinger blew up his knee huh.

ugh there's apparently rumors of the bucks going after budenholzer

a weird nba coaching subplot is when the fuck did coach bud get enough clout to say "i don't want to coach a rebuild"?

there arent that many good coaches out there

Guess people have faith in his ability to replicate the Spurs magic having been there for so long.

Plus his turnaround from 38 wins to their best ever season in ATL supports that.

Vogel fired

Bud on the Bucks would be a big step up, he's a top ten coach. But coach is only about 50% of their issues, that roster needs some big upgrades and better fits.

Top 3 odds for lottery teams:#Suns - 64.2%#Grizzlies - 55.8%#Hawks - 42.6%#Mavs - 42.6%#Magic - 29.1%#Kings - 18.3%#Bulls - 18.3%#Cavs (via Nets) - 9.9%#Knicks - 6.1%#Sixers or #Celtics (via Lakers) - 4.0%#Hornets - 2.9%#Pistons - 2.5%#Clippers - 2.2%#Nuggets - 1.8%

— Basketball Reference (@bball_ref) April 12, 2018

Clifford fired

ahaha (sry heez)

The Heat won the 16 pick which slid the Bucks to 17 and therefore keeping their pick. The Bucks representative in attendance screamed "YEAH!" when the Heat won the 16th pick just now. https://t.co/Tx1Nff0jpz

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) April 13, 2018

wait maybe im confused that pick is going to phx i guess whatever

well the hawks lost both coin flips and are now most likely to pick 5th. that plus budenholzer given permission to interview with the suns. offseason is sucking so far.

:( sorry dude

on the other hand the 5th pick shd be pretty sick in this draft

Kristaps Porzingis is 22 years old and going on his fourth NBA coach

— Stefan Bondy (@SBondyNYDN) April 14, 2018

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2771394-the-bottled-water-obsession-taking-over-nba-locker-rooms

discussed a little here hello friends it's the 2018 NBA Playoffs, a place where dreams GO 2 DIE

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbfuT5sU8AArtVp.jpg

lmao suns gonna be in the gutter until sarver sells.

why not throw mark jackson into the mix

http://www.tmz.com/2018/04/23/chris-paul-selling-houston-mansion/

i distinctly remember looking at this exact same house back when CP3 bought it lol what is going on

Lookin' for a big ass house with 14 bathrooms?

lol sick lede

cp lbj pg melo wade to the lakers confirmed

and derrick rose. cant forget drose.

She Said Yes!! https://t.co/UhSmb0H0CS

— TMZ Sports (@TMZ_Sports) April 24, 2018

#Heat expected to try to trade Hassan Whiteside, via @amathur90. #NBA https://t.co/LzFpVChSQ2 pic.twitter.com/HJJoWc0T9z

— Sam Amico (@AmicoHoops) April 25, 2018

key word: try

otm. they're going to have to attach a pick or useful player to it or take back some bad contracts. or just dupe the kings.

how about whiteside for tyson chandler and change? feel like that would be good for both teams. whiteside was born to be a sun

reasonable

so the hawks just let bud go. i have no idea why but assume bud wanted to move on. fuck

the true rebuild is on

hey, if pop retires this summer? bud would be top of the list for spurs. just sayinnnnn

uhh

Rumor: 76ers increasingly confident about signing LeBron James https://t.co/gUx5MR5tXN

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) April 26, 2018

lol that would be so sick

we cn only pray for a huge personality conflict between bron and ben

Nobody ever really hates on the Cs tho do they? They're def one of my sidepieces this season

sup

My Laker hatred is so encompassing that I have no hate left to expend on the Celtics. And brad stevens is so angel-faced, who could hate him?

yeah outside of lakers fans celtics hate is entirely spillover from the NFL and to a lesser extent MLB

nah man f the celtics. only time ill cheer for them is when they play the lakers

altho i do like this celtics team lol

last year's celtics team in the offs was the biggest bandwagon bait ever but because boston there wasn't much of a bandwagon

i've always been neutral abt the celtics and my good friends on ILH here the last way too many years have warmed me to them largely and this current roster is so fun i'm def excited to root for them this year

pats can get fucked tho obv i mean i'm not sure i even need to say that

The Spurs traded Tony Parker and lost two more point guards to 8-weeks-or-more injuries and still have a better PG rotation than Phoenix. Think about that.

— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) October 12, 2018

even im sick of the patriots xp

otm

lol wut https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2800264-report-bulls-insider-says-jimmy-butler-changed-due-to-mark-wahlberg-friendship

Horrible article haha

It accuses a four time all-star of not improving his game lately! Because he "began seeing himself as a star"!

this is good
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2800225-hassan-whiteside-is-ready-to-cook?share=other

Fultz Standstill 3
*Substantial air space(distance from ball 2forehead at release)
📍Prematurely straightened arms w/major reduction in freedom of motion=dysrhythmic energy transfer
📍160k shots w/said energy transfer=rep training doesn’t necessarily=self organized refinement pic.twitter.com/WzPbIjshuq

— BBiomechanics (@BBiomechanics) October 11, 2018

philly traded tatum + a likely high lottery pick for him ha

and simmons is useless when hes not handling the ball

simmons is good

hes good in a lazy midseason game, in the playoffs against a team prepared to exploit his weaknesses hes got a lot of weaknesses

In the regular season he’s playoff Rondo. In the playoffs last year he was regular season Rondo.

hes good in a lazy midseason game, in the playoffs against a team prepared to exploit his weaknesses hes got a lot of weaknesses

― lag∞n, Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:37 PM (six hours ago)

yes he was also a rookie

I was listening to the bill simmons over/unders podcast, he's really high on the lakers and thinks they're a lock to be over 47.5 or 48 wins or whatever it is and has them as the #3 seed and...I don't see it. I mean they could do it for sure but if there is anything we have learned about regular season lebron over the past 7 years, particularly in his first season with a team, it is that they do not exceed expectations in the regular season. no way lebron goes hard enough for 82 games for that team to win 50 in a stacked western conference imo

it is actually gonna be hard for many teams in the west to break 50 kinda like last year, too many good teams that are gonna beat up on each other

Yeah was listening to the same podcast and I was surprised. I mean they can't really break 48 wins with their current interior defence rotation. Are there any speculated trades to help in that area?

They also won't want LeBron defending the 5 and wearing himself down. Really I would have thought that they should be looking to preserve him for a real run next season (w/ a free agent star signing) and for now develop their younger assets, and if they make the playoffs this year it's a bonus.

Rough win calc:

Bucks: 1/2
Bulls: 2/2
Cavs: 1/2
Celtics: 0/2
Clippers: 3/4
Grizzlies: 2/3
Hawks: 2/2
Heat: 1/2
Hornets: 2/2
Jazz: 1/4
Kings: 3/4
Knicks: 2/2
Magic: 2/2
Mavericks: 2/3
Nets: 2/2
Nuggets: 1/3
Pacers: 1/2
Pelicans: 2/4
Pistons: 1/2
Raptors: 1/2
Rockets: 1/4
Sixers: 1/2
Spurs: 3/4
Suns: 3/4
Timberwolves: 1/4
Thunder: 2/3
Trailblazers: 2/4
Warriors: 1/4
Wizards: 1/2

So maybe they are kind of hovering around as a 47 win team but 3 seed? Nahhh

Not that I want it to happen but just wondering what trade would it take to get Mark Gasol on the Lakers? Esp since he can opt out next year. Grizz could tank pretty effectively without him and I would assume noone is interested in Conley really.

lakers would only trade grizzlies their expiring vets probably which memphis might do to get under the cap or something idk.

Yeah I just looked on trade machine and Lakers just don't have the salary to do it.

https://www.inquisitr.com/5071865/nba-rumors-lakers-magic-could-explore-kentavious-caldwell-pope-for-nikola-vucevic-trade-per-clutchpoints/

This just makes sense to me really.

that would be fine for everyone i think. lakers really need an innings eater at the 5, if they leave the rotation as it is they're adding a ton of unnecessary wear and injury risk to lebron and kuzma and whoever else they use to fill up 26 minutes a nite.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dib9-qIVsAAQlYS.jpg

that needs to go in nba fashion!!!!!!

ps my friends
It is the years 2018-19 in the National Basketball Association (NBA) - The Regular Season

yes he was also a rookie

― k3vin k., Saturday, October 13, 2018 7:01 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was he really tho, something to think about